People We Love Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/category/people-we-love/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:34:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png People We Love Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/category/people-we-love/ 32 32 SPOTLIGHT: ROBERT LONGSTREET SHINES IN QUEER INDIES https://www.hammertonail.com/features/spotlight-robert-longstreet/ Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:29:43 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38469

Jules of Light and Dark and A Dim Valley proudly bare rainbow shades over subtly plotted rural American narratives. They both deserve a spotlight. Featuring nuanced performances from Robert Longstreet—an indie darling whose star has steadily risen—you have to ask […]

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]]> IT’S IFP WEEK! https://www.hammertonail.com/features/fp-week-2020/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:46:10 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33416

IFP Week kicked off this week, virtually looking to the future of cinemas, film festivals, and disrupting the traditional business models. The week-long sessions on Zoom continue through Sept. 26.  Film Festival Alliance hosted one of the first panels with […]

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]]> A Conversation with Michael Almereyda (TESLA) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/michael-almereyda/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:58:23 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33392

Near the conclusion of Michael Almereyda’s beguiling Tesla, the title character, played mysterious mystical perfect Ethan Hawke, steps up to the mic for a karaoke version of Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears. His voice is […]

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]]> TIFF Industry Conference- Day 5 Master Class with dream hampton https://www.hammertonail.com/features/tiff-industry-conference-5/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 21:22:27 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33346

dream hampton, award-winning filmmaker based in Detroit believes her motherhood and activism are all parts of who she is as a filmmaker but doesn’t make a pretense that her path was anything but traditional.  “The truth about me having access […]

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]]> A Better Documentary Industry Conversation Leads Day 3 of Tiff Conference https://www.hammertonail.com/features/tiff-industry-conference-3/ Sat, 12 Sep 2020 21:48:37 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33328

With TIFF Documentary Programmer Thom Powers at the helm of the conversation with Sonya Childress of Firelight Media and Jesse Wente of Indigenous Screen Office and producer of an Inconvenient Indian, the trio explored beyond the conversations on authenticity and […]

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]]> Golden Age of New Voices – Day 2 of TIFF Conference https://www.hammertonail.com/features/tiff-industry-conference-2/ https://www.hammertonail.com/features/tiff-industry-conference-2/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2020 20:53:54 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33324

In Ted Hope’s Master Class at TIFF 2020, he alluded to a golden age of new voices that were already in transition before COVID-19 amplified the changes in the industry. While emphasizing cultural changes he’s seen since joining the industry […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/features/tiff-industry-conference-2/feed/ 1 Day One of the TIFF Industry Conference https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/tiff-industry-conference-1/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:47:26 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33309

Day one of the TIFF Industry Conference kicked off with Master Class featuring Viola Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon speaking on their production company and the journey of normalizing Black stories in a system not designed for it. The […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Fall ’19 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/fall-19-shorts-winners/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:50:24 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31819 While it t’isn’t quite the season, at least in terms of popular holiday parlance, it is the season to announce the winners of our fall 2019 short film contest! In looking back at the last few announcement write-ups, I’ve noticed […]

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]]> That’s a Wrap on the 2019 Bend Film Festival! https://www.hammertonail.com/people-we-love/2019-bend-film-festival-wrap/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:52:57 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31610 The dream of the 90s is alive and well in Bend, maybe even a bit more so than Portland. With the last remaining Blockbuster Video in the world (yes it has that Blockbuster smell) to the arcades, record shops and […]

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]]> Greetings from the Montana International Film Festival! https://www.hammertonail.com/on-the-festival-circuit/2019-mint-film-fest/ Sat, 21 Sep 2019 18:45:09 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31466 Montana International Film Festival (MINT) opened its second ever festival Thursday with a very Montana themed evening – a celebration under the Big Sky and stars outside of the historic Babcock Theatre in downtown Billings. The evening kicked off with […]

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